One of the most active legal proponents of DNA testing to exonerate convicts is in Dallas, Texas. 

Read about it here:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/13/AR2011021303415.html?hpid=topnews

Thanks to ‘Da Brayn’ for bringing Texas justice to the attention of the It’s Interesting community.

DNA testing works.  Read here how DNA from a cigarette butt recently helped catch the ‘East Coast Rapist.’  http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/03/05/connecticut.east.coast.rapist/index.html?hpt=T1